¹¹ Later, ·large birds [or birds of prey] flew down to eat the ·animals [^Lcarcasses], but Abram chased them away [^Cperhaps representing later enemies of Israel].

¹² As the sun was ·going down [setting], Abram fell into a deep sleep. While he was asleep, a very ·terrible [or frightening] darkness came. ¹³ Then the Lord said to Abram, “You can be sure that your ·descendants [^Lseed] will be ·strangers [sojourners; wanderers; resident aliens] in a land they don’t own. The people there will make them slaves and ·be cruel to [oppress] them for four hundred years.